Category Archives: Science

The Trump administration has made many stumbles in its response to the coronavirus pandemic, but one of the key failures was not having enough kits to test for the pathogen once it appeared in the United States.

More than 100 clinical trials of dozens of ' are already underway around the world, a mobilization of global medical resources rarely seen before in human history. But science can be slow and indirect.

Scientists and doctors have observed for thousands of years that some diseases, such as polio and influenza, rise and fall with the seasons. But why?

In Nebraska, researchers are studying whether an ' , can treat COVID-19, the illness that results from coronavirus infection. In New York, Gov.

Our galaxy is a whole lot bigger than it looks. New work finds that the Milky Way stretches nearly 2 million light-years across, more than 15 times wider than its luminous spiral disk.

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A drug combo already used against HIV. A malaria treatment first tested during World War II. A new antiviral whose promise against Ebola fizzled last year.

WASHINGTON (AP) ' In a clash of gut instinct versus science, President Donald Trump and the government's top infectious disease expert, Dr.

Watch how the building blocks of Notre Dame'from wooden beams to the stone walls'were altered by the fire, and how researchers are using these fallen fragments to examine long-standing questions about the construction of the cathedral.

The Rosalind Franklin probe will be Europe's first Mars rover. It had been expected to lift off for the red planet in July, and was due to arrive in March 2021.

President Vladimir Putin shakes a robot's hand at a telecommunications company in Perm, Russia. Credit: Alexei Druzhinin/TASS via Getty In the twilight of a winter's afternoon on the outskirts of Moscow,

Multiple women alleged sexual harassment by Ranulfo Romo Trujillo of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, University City.

Why is there so much resistance to science? Is it inherent in science, or does it have to do with the way science is communicated?

The White House has released a working copy of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) latest controversial 'secret science' proposal replete with red edits. Former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt launched the rulemaking effort in 2018.

Where schools have closed, teachers have attempted to continue coursework with their students online. As the societal disruptions from COVID-19 spread and intensify, a question for many in the United States is, what about schools?

She taught herself to recognize, excavate and prepare these relics when the field of paleontology was in its infancy ' and closed to women.